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GORDON-BYRNE: They're great jobs, and they don't require an advanced degree. I'll give you an example. There's a charity in Minnesota called Tech Dump, and they take in donated electronics and then they hire adults that are hard to employ, many of whom are coming out of the criminal justice system. They train them to make repairs. They then take the repaired goods, sell them and use the proceeds to fund more training.
And secondary markets are why used equipment is so affordable because the used seller has to compete with new. So if a new gadget is $1,000, we expect a pretty big discount to buy that same item used. Let's start with 50%. So now we have an affordability capability that is central to crossing the digital divide.
We had 5 million students that went to virtual school this past year that didn't have enabling technology. And that's because parents and school districts couldn't buy new. We still have a lot of chip shortages, and these are going to be with us for a while. And I think we have to think very seriously about doing more repair, not just to make things last longer but also to be more resilient as an economy.
Gay Gordon-Byrne: Why do big manufacturers prevent you from repairing your own stuff?
Gay Gordon-Byrne: Why do big manufacturers prevent you from repairing your own stuff?
Manufacturers intentionally make their products hard to fix. Right-to-repair advocate Gay Gordon-Byrne fights for laws to stop companies from monopolizing repairs and let people fix their own stuff.
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